The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?